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Nate Watts, Music EditorClearing Out the Cracks
Nate Watts, Music Editor

I've never been the typical music fan. I'm not the type that just waits to hear a song on the radio and tries to figure out who sings that catchy new song. I'm usually the guy that has to be the first to hear it and be the one who can answer all my friends when they ask "Oh, yeah who sings that one about...?" Maybe it's a selfish desire to feel important, or maybe it's just wanting to spread my love for music to those closest to me, but it's been in me since probably sixth grade when I started listening to pop radio.

Now, almost eighteen years later, here I am the music editor of an amazing website dedicated to sharing music, movies, and other media to the world through a Christian perspective. I had no idea what an undertaking it would be like to filter through all the music that comes out every month, but I know there have been more than a couple great CD's that have slipped through the cracks since taking over the reins in January from Jacob Sahms, the master himself. Here are a few I missed...

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Johnny CashJohnny Cash
American VI: Ain't No Grave

The Legend Lives On

February 26th saw the release of the last of Johnny Cash's American Recordings album series, American VI: Ain't No Grave, on what would have been his 78th birthday.

In 1997, Cash was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease, Shy-Drager Syndrome and from there on, his career took an interesting turn. Always a great musical storyteller, his new stories focused on tales of redemption and ponderings of life, death, and finally meeting his Maker.

Sensing his own frailty and knowing his time on Earth was short, he dedicated the last 4 months of his life to recording and it was the only thing keeping him going. He had producer Rick Rubin close at hand, as well as studio musicians who could come record with him on days when he felt able. The results were the posthumous release American V: A Hundred Highways, featuring "God's Gonna Cut You Down," and American VI, which will be the last of the series.

On American VI, there is such frailty in Cash's songs, but still an amazing inner strength that shines through, despite his illness.

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